JOE BOB'S OSCAR FAVORITES WON'T MAKE ACADEMY LIST

In an inspired bit of casting, the current issue of Us magazine has asked the irascible Joe Bob Briggs to offer his cockeyed analysis of this year's Oscar race. Joe Bob has selected his own personal favorites -- none of which made it anywhere near the Academy list -- as the year's best. "Make them Die Slowly is not on the list even though it was directly responsible for 19 murders in Times Square alone and scored a 98 on the vomit meter," Joe Bob fulminates. He also picked A Chorus Line as the best horror film of 1985 and described Rocky IV, in which Sylvester Stallone singlehandedly wins the Cold War by beating up a Russian in the ring, as the "finest film about global peace ever made by a man with enormous breasts."

HUDSON ESTATE SUES LOVER SAYS ACTOR WAS BLACKMAILED

The estate of Rock Hudson filed a $2 million cross-complaint against the actor's lover, claiming he blackmailed Hudson out of at least $72,000 by threatening to reveal the actor's homosexuality, court papers revealed Thursday. The documents also claim Marc Christian, who has filed a $14 million lawsuit against the estate, stole thousands of dollars worth of Hudson's property and was a prostitute who had sex with at least one man who had AIDS. Hudson, 59, died of complications from AIDS in September 1985 amid publicity that raised the public's awareness about the disease that predominantly strikes homosexual men. Christian filed his suit two months later, claiming Hudson learned in June 1984 that he had AIDS but lied to Christian and continued to have sex with him. Hudson's estate seeks $2 million in punitive damages, $72,000 in allegedly extorted money and return of at least $60,000 in property it claims Christian stole.

DAVIS RECALLS MARCOS WEALTH SIDE BY SIDE WITH VERY POOR

President Reagan's daughter, Patti Davis, 33, recalls how her feelings for the poor were reinforced when she was 13 and went to Manila with her parents to visit the Marcoses. "We stayed in a palace which is wealth to such a degree that it was mind-boggling," Davis recalls. "And they took us on a bus tour one day to show us the sights of Manila, but you can't go out and see the sights of Manila without going by these people living by a riverbank under sheets of corrugated metal and living by an absolutely polluted river. And this was after they show us all the monuments Marcos had built, marbled crosses on graveyards and stuff. And they said this is Mrs. Marcos' next project, to clean it up. And I thought, 'What is she going to do, come shoot them all?' I felt sick when I got back to that palace. I wanted to take the food and go run down and give it to those people."

Producer Tamar E. Glaser has finished negotiations and obtained the exclusive television and movie rights to the life stories of Philippine President Corazon Aquino and her murdered husband, Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. Glaser spent more than two years in the Philippines co-producing Hell Camp, an action-drama.